3. Many at the time blamed the outbreak on the German military who were accused of spreading the virus in an effort to win the war.

4. It was Allied soldiers who first got the disease.

5. When Germans soldiers eventually also started to succumb to the virus, the German surrender came pretty swiftly.

6. Chemical weapons were first used during the First World War, were biological weapons used also?

7. It is estimated that more people died as a result of the Spanish 'Flu than died as a direct result of the fighting in the whole of WWI. Did this single fact subsequently influence the almost universal global ban on biological weapons?

Research carried out by John Oxford, a virologist at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, and the Royal London Hospital, has found that the virus first got hold in 1918 at the British military camp at Étaples in France.

This camp formed an important centre communication wise and was linked by rail transporting troops straight to the frontlines.

In other words the virus could not have been better placed for disrupting the Allied war effort.

Biological warfare was even used in the medieval era. The corpses of diseased animals and humans were catapulted over castle walls during sieges in the hope of infecting the occupants within.

In 1918 people were aware of the existence of microbes and had a fair idea of how they worked.

It is not implausible that in 1918 it had been observed that an often deadly disease sometimes caused birds to fall out of the sky and in order to make the disease transmissible to man they had taken the bird ‘flu and given it to pigs? This is how scientists today believe Spanish ‘Flu came about, that an avian ‘flu was given to swine and then finally to man.

The Spanish ‘Flu has become known as the “forgotten pandemic”. Despite its devastating impact with anywhere between 3% and 6% of the entire world’s population dying, historians have been at loss to explain why this dark event in the history of humanity has more or less faded from our collective memory.

But is this unwillingness to remember the Spanish ‘Flu not symptomatic of the inclination of our world’s governments to hide the embarrassing truth about how this virus was originally spread?

No snipe, I was being serious. It truly would not be hard to use it as a weapon.

You could have read what you said in more than one way. Anyway it was not quite what I was suggesting.

Again, I continue.......

I also find it a startling fact that not only was the unique global event of the First World War accompanied by a devastating flu outbreak but that it also resulted in the 1917 Russian Revolution. The Germans blamed the Russians for having started the war and it seems ironic that Russia left the war because their own government was overthrown by insurgents.

Some have claimed that German agents had sponsored Lenin. See the following link: